Modern Art

Art historians often divide modern art into categories of figurative/representational and abstract art. Although they are by no means mutually exclusive, figurative art is made with the intention...

Neo-Dada is a term that refers to mid-20th century art that challenged the traditional definitions of art, pushed the boundaries of the art world and birthed important performance and conceptual...

Dada art was a movement that took place during the First World War, when artists in New York, Zurich and Munich questioned the very meaning of art by displaying crude or simple objects as fine...

The year was 1917. A young punk by the name of Marcel Duchamp decided to inject a little humor into the modern art scene, in the name of Dada. He assembled a readymade sculpture from a urinal. ...

Dada art was a politically charged artistic movement arising out of the barbarism of World War One, fueled by frustration toward the colonial powers and bourgeois rule that initiated the conflict....

Max Ernst was a part of the Dada movement as well as a founder of surrealism. He was born in Bruhl, Germany on April 2, 1891. Although he originally enrolled in a university with the intent of...